ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE
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- Academic year
- 2021/2022
- Teacher
- MARIA GIULIA FABI
- Credits
- 6
- Curriculum
- ARCHEOLOGIA E ARTI
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- L-LIN/11
Training objectives
- To broaden the knowledge of American literary history, to develop the ability to do close readings, and to increase students’ analytical and critical skills through an in-depth examination of American literature and literary criticism.
Prerequisites
- Knowledge of the English language: level B1+/B2.
Course programme
- "American Literature and Social Justice."
The course will focus on the analysis of the strategies of representation of social justice in American literature, discussing them within their broader literary-historical context. Starting from the Declaration of Independence and examining works by Frederick Douglass and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the textual analysis will foreground the politics of representation of gender, ethnicity, and class in relation to the critical methodologies of Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies. Didactic methods
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Learning assessment procedures
- A written exam will test the students' knowledge of the texts, the related critical essays, and the literary historical context.
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